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* RAC Portable Power Station, need DC adaptor spec - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/b105b15b5ad9d933?hl=en
* *OT* Dragnet Episode - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: RAC Portable Power Station, need DC adaptor spec
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/b105b15b5ad9d933?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Dec 10 2010 8:07 pm
From: "Michael A. Terrell"

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
>
> In article <euednQmDP4tw6Z_QnZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Tell me, what have you designed? Have you ever worked in a metrology
> > lab repairing and calibrating test equipment? Have you built space
> > qualified electronics and seen them used from space?
>
> If you're claiming to have done all this, how can you get it wrong about
> something so simple as a modern battery tester?
>
> Perhaps you're just living in the past.

Perhaps you live on a fantasy world.

--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!

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TOPIC: *OT* Dragnet Episode
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/7d2b25421f3aeaa0?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Dec 10 2010 8:10 pm
From: "Michael A. Terrell"

jeff_wisnia wrote:
>
> William Sommerwerck wrote:
> >>I don't know. Why don't you list the ones you DO remember, then go
> >>here http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-59-ALL-USA.htm to fill in the
> >>blanks? FYI: They list 104 TV manufacturers for the years 1950-1959,
> >>running from A (Admiral) to Z (Zenith).
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the ref. At least 20% of the names were unfamiliar.
> >
> > The most-interesting was "Natalie Kalmus", the woman whose name appears as
> > "Technicolor consultant" on pre-1950 films. She was the once-wife of Herbert
> > Kalmus, the principal developer of Technicolor.
> >
> >
>
> My first job out of grad school in 1958 was with an R&D company,
> Comstock and Wescott, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before WWII ("The big
> one") the company's name was Kalmus, Comstock and Wescott, and I came to
> know them as the developers of the Technicolor color movie process
> through that association.
>
> When I joined them one of the products they had already developed and
> were trying to make a market for was a combination household
> refrigerator and domestic water heater. The heater tank was on top of an
> upright refrigerator and served as the condenser for the refrigeration
> system, recovering the heat removed from the refrigerator. They had
> named it "Stator".
>
> AFAIK that product never made it to market, possibly because it was too
> tall for the reduced ceiling heights prevalent after the war.
>
> While I was working there they were also developing household heating
> systems based on using off peak electrical energy to melt some kind of
> salt with a high latent heat of fusion stored in multiple narrow
> containers inside a "furnace plenum." The stored heat warmed air blown
> over those containers and was used to provide forced air heating.
>
> That one didn't take off back then either, but in the past year I've
> seen reference to something under development (again) which sounded similar.
>
> Thanks for the mammaries,

Have you ever seen a common water fountain hat was modified to
produce hot water? A second coil is added, near the condenser to adsorb
heat to provide hot water for a bathroom sink.

--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!

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